was created in him that which had not existed in vegetable or animal, the plane of the spiritual, with its inmost receptacle of God to enable him to become the moral image and likeness of his Creator. He who created all things could create anything He desired in any manner or according to any mode that seemed useful. There was no precedent for the sending of the Son of God, or projection of God into nature, and inherently there could be no repetition of it, for once here in His infinitude God is forever with us on the plane of the natural. Thus the possibility of the virgin birth is seen to exist if the Creative Power saw it to be essential.
It is idle to assume that it could not take place because it is not the mode followed in other cases. The creation of the soul-form from the spiritual substances of the human father is a distinct act of creation on the part of the Divine; but it is a projection of the human father's life, or life through the human father, and hence like the human father as a type. The creation of the soul-form by means of which God came down into the kingdom of nature directly, as the man Christ Jesus, was similarly a projection from the Divine, but instead of
